A crackdown by the fuzz on modded cars, be warned!

[Horney]

From clubpolo:

"Got pulled at 6am this morning, its a national crackdown apparently, his opening lines were, "I'm giving you a ticket due to the volume of your exhaust" my reply was "you what?". He got a bit arsey at this comment.

My exhaust is a standard mk3 polo exhaust, his complaint was the volume of it at acceleration. Asked my to give it some revs so i could hear as well, nothing above normal...then asked me to floor the throttle...loud noise, "thats what I'm talking about he said". told him it wasnt my exhaust but he wouldnt have it. thing is that the sound he could hear was my induction kit, quiet when applied slowly, loud when floored and i even showed him.
His explantion of my exhaust would make any car with an active exhaust system illegal as well.

Walked into cop shop this morning with crappy wet ticket and an MOT garage letter stating that the exhaust was in A1 condittion and was fitted as standard to this vehicle. Copper behind the counter called down his boss, who said "what a waste of your time", and the holy grail "I'm sorry for this"

So it looks as if there out to get us, but keep your wits about you and be mostly polite and they cant do a thing.

REMEMBER: QUESTION EVERYTHING!!!!"

Full thread: http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=105712&st=0

VZi thread: http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/showthread.php?t=450754&highlight=pulled

Nick

[JC]

way of the world - doing the same to bikes.  got to pay for all the ilegal immigrants some how 

[Jay]

To me that sounds like an arsey copper and nothing more.

[daniel-1986]

my mate had a seriously loud exhaust on his mk2 golf and always revved it up as he drove the cops past to get there reaction but they dont do anything

[Mk1Mad J - 16v]

My mate gets pulled in his mk1 often (3" jetex from manifold back) with the old exhaust excuse, its just that an excuse to pull you      just entertain the dim-witted tw@ts and you can be on your merry way in no time 

[DarnPB]

The legal maximum noise for an exhaust system is, or was 101 db. It may be down to 99db now, but in any case, that is still loud and you would have to go some to exceed that volume. Even kitcar Cobras have trouble going over that limit, and they have unrestricted side pipes and large V8 tuned engines.
So long as the exhaust is in good nick and not blowing, the un-educated coppers who are out to make a name for themselves do not have a leg to stand on.

[daniel-1986]

 the un-educated coppers who are out to make a name for themselves do not have a leg to stand on.
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new coppers out to get brownie points

[Uruk Hai]

If you feel your car was not illegal then you can plead not guilty to the alledged offence !

[Shady Pioneer]

 am yet to be pulled for having LED green sidelights. They are extremely noticeable and quite bright but no fuzzers have pulled me yet. Strange.

[Neaty]

just shows how clueless these bobbys really are!